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Impaired spatial selectivity and intact phase precession in two-dimensional virtual reality

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Neuroscience, November 2014
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Title
Impaired spatial selectivity and intact phase precession in two-dimensional virtual reality
Published in
Nature Neuroscience, November 2014
DOI 10.1038/nn.3884
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Authors

Zahra M Aghajan, Lavanya Acharya, Jason J Moore, Jesse D Cushman, Cliff Vuong, Mayank R Mehta

Abstract

During real-world (RW) exploration, rodent hippocampal activity shows robust spatial selectivity, which is hypothesized to be governed largely by distal visual cues, although other sensory-motor cues also contribute. Indeed, hippocampal spatial selectivity is weak in primate and human studies that use only visual cues. To determine the contribution of distal visual cues only, we measured hippocampal activity from body-fixed rodents exploring a two-dimensional virtual reality (VR). Compared to that in RW, spatial selectivity was markedly reduced during random foraging and goal-directed tasks in VR. Instead we found small but significant selectivity to distance traveled. Despite impaired spatial selectivity in VR, most spikes occurred within ∼2-s-long hippocampal motifs in both RW and VR that had similar structure, including phase precession within motif fields. Selectivity to space and distance traveled were greatly enhanced in VR tasks with stereotypical trajectories. Thus, distal visual cues alone are insufficient to generate a robust hippocampal rate code for space but are sufficient for a temporal code.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 19 4%
United Kingdom 5 1%
Germany 4 <1%
Portugal 2 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 444 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 140 29%
Researcher 91 19%
Student > Master 61 13%
Student > Bachelor 38 8%
Professor 22 5%
Other 63 13%
Unknown 66 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 149 31%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 119 25%
Psychology 33 7%
Engineering 24 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 23 5%
Other 58 12%
Unknown 75 16%

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